Newly acquired minor league pitcher Joselo Diaz overslept and missed a start when the Vero Beach Dodgers were – ironically enough – facing the St. Lucie Mets a month ago, The Post has learned.

The 23-year-old Diaz, one of three minor leaguers the Mets acquired yesterday in the Jeromy Burnitz trade, told the Dodgers that his alarm clock didn’t go off, a source said. The Dodgers told Diaz to stay home.

“Diaz has a major-league arm, but, in spite of being a good kid, what most outsiders don’t realize about him is he has a shoddy work ethic,” a minor-league source said.